Janez Jansa

Janez Jansa (17 September 1958-) was Prime Minister of Slovenia from 3 December 2004 to 21 November 2008 (succeeding Anton Rop and preceding Borut Pahor) and from 10 February 2012 to 20 March 2013 (succeeding Pahor and preceding Alenka Bratusek). He was a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party.

Biography
Janez Jansa was born in Grosuplje, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia on 17 September 1958, and he became a pacifist activist during the 1980s, criticizing the Yugoslav People's Army and supporting democracy. In 1988, he was arrested and charged with exposing military secrets, and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, leading to widespread protests in Slovenia. He was released after six months, and he became a magazine editor-in-chief. In 1989, he founded the Slovenian Democratic Union, which later evolved into the Slovenian Democratic Party. In May 1990, he became Defense Minister of Slovenia, organizing Slovenia's strategy against the YPA during the Ten-Day War of 1991.

In 1993, he became President of the Slovenian Democratic Party, and he was in opposition from 1994 to 2004. In 1994, he was dismissed as Defense Minister after a scandal involving the abuse of an arrested person by soldiers, and he was surrounded by further controversy for his extreme nationalism and chauvinism (including irridentist claims against Croatia). From 2004 to 2008, he served as Prime Minister, and he served again from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, he was forced to resign due to corruption allegations and unpopular austerity measures in response to the Great Recession.